ML21067A656
| ML21067A656 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades, Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/08/2021 |
| From: | Laforge J - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | |
| SECY/RAS | |
| References | |
| 86FR8225, NRC-2021-0036 | |
| Download: ML21067A656 (2) | |
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From:
nukewatch1 To:
Docket, Hearing
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2021-0036 Date:
Monday, March 08, 2021 2:56:36 PM To the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Re.Docket IDNRC-2021-0036 Do whom it may concern:
Regardingthe transfer of licenses and ownership, from current owner Entergy Nuclear to proposed new owner Holtec International, for the Palisades and Big Rock Point nuclear power plant sites:
I object to Holtecs reliance on its merely proposed and as yet unapproved and unlicensed Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) plan targeting the State of New Mexico for commercial waste from nuclear reactors.
Holtecs CISF proposal is an inexcusable violation of the principles of environmental justice in view of the fact that New Mexico has a majority minority state population of Hispanic and Indigenous peoples who have no responsibility for, and have played no part in, the generation of commercial radioactive waste. The lands of these people of New Mexico are being targeted for the abandonment of commercial high-level radioactive waste because of the relative political and economic weakness of their minority group status, and the targeting is being done without the advice or consent of these peoples.
I object as well to Holtexs proposal because it ignores and contradicts the recommendation of the Final Report of the 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future specifying that any CISFs must meet consent-based siting standards. Written and spoken non-consent to Holtecs CISF has been clearly and repeatedly expressed by: 1) the All Pueblo Council of Governors; 2) the Navajo Nation; 3) New Mexico's governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham; 4) the State Land Commissioner, Stephanie Garcia Richard; 5) most of New Mexicos U.S. congressional delegation, including Deb Haaland, nominated by President Biden and recommended by committee to become Secretary of the Interior; 6) many New Mexico state legislators; 7) numerous New Mexican industry associations and small businesses; 8) a large number of New Mexican environmental, environmental justice, and nuclear watchdog organizations; and 9) a growing groundswell of New Mexico residents.
I also object to Holtecs reliance on the unfinished and previously cancelled Yucca Mountain, Nevada dump-site plan for commercial high-level radioactive waste, another environmentally racist scheme that targets lands belonging to the Western Shoshone Nation. The Western Shoshone Nation, the State of Nevada, and its U.S. Congressional delegation, and more than a thousand environmental groups in Nevada and across the country (many of which are located along transport routes of any potential Yucca Mt.-bound high-level radioactive waste), have expressed absolute and unambiguous opposition to and non-consent with the Yucca Mt., NV dump scheme. In addition, any continuation of the Yucca Mountain dump plan further violates the U.S.-Western Shoshone peace and friendship Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863, which like all ratified treaties is recognized by the Constitution of the United States as the Supreme Law of the Land.
Yours Truly, John LaForge, Co-Director, Nukwatch 740A Round Lake Road Luck, Wisconsin 54853
<nukewatch1@lakeland.ws>
Nukewatch 740A Round Lake Road Luck, WI 54853 (715) 472-4185 www.nukewatchinfo.org